Activity of tree bats at anthropogenic tall structures: Implications for mortality of bats at wind turbines

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 97, Issue , 2014, Pages 145-152

  Jameson, Joel W ^a   Willis, Craig K R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bat acoustic activity; Conservation behaviour; Lasionycteris noctivagans; Lasiurus borealis; Lasiurus cinerus; Migration; Reproductive landmark; Social behaviour; Telecommunication tower; Tree bat

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BAT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; MORTALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TELECOMMUNICATION; WIND TURBINE;

ARDOPS NICHOLLSI; LASIONYCTERIS NOCTIVAGANS; LASIURUS; LASIURUS BOREALIS;

EID: 84907879950     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.09.003     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Angeloni L., Schlaepfer M.A., Lawler J.J., Crooks K.R. A reassessment of the interface between conservation and behaviour. Animal Behaviour 2008, 75:731-737.
2. Arlettaz R., Jones G., Racey P.A. Effect of acoustic clutter on prey detection by bats. Nature 2001, 414:742-745.
3. Arnett E.B., Baerwald E.F. Impacts of wind energy development on bats: implications for conservation. Bat evolution, ecology and conservation 2013, 435-456. Spring Science & Business Media, New York, NY. R.S. Adams, S.C. Pedersen (Eds.).
4. Arnett E.B., Brown W.K., Erickson W.P., Fiedler K.K., Hamilton B.L., Henry T.H., et al. Patterns of bat fatalities at wind energy facilities in North America. Journal of Wildlife Management 2008, 72:61-78.
5. Baerwald E.F. Variation in the activity and fatality of migratory bats at wind energy facilities in Southern Alberta: Causes and consequences (Master of Science thesis) 2008, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
6. Baerwald E.F., Barclay R.M.R. Geographic variation in activity and fatality of migratory bats at wind energy facilities. Journal of Mammalogy 2009, 90:1341-1349.
7. Barclay R.M.R. The effect of reproductive condition on the foraging behavior of female hoary bats, Lasiurus cinereus. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 1989, 24:31-37.
8. Barclay R.M.R., Baerwald E.F., Gruver J.C. Variation in bat and bird fatalities at wind energy facilities: assessing the effects of rotor size and tower height. Canadian Journal of Zoology 2007, 85:381-387.
9. Bennett V.J., Hale A.M. Red aviation lights on wind turbines do not increase bat-turbine collisions. Animal Conservation 2014, 17:354-358. 10.1111/acv.12102.
10. Betts B.J. Effects of interindividual variation in echolocation calls on identification of big brown and silver-haired bats. Journal of Wildlife Management 1998, 62:1003-1010.
11. Brigham R.M., Grindal S.D., Firman M.C., Morissette J.L. The influence of structural clutter on activity patterns of insectivorous bats. Canadian Journal of Zoology 1997, 75:131-136.
12. Cryan P.M. Mating behavior as a possible cause of bat fatalities at wind turbines. Journal of Wildlife Management 2008, 72:845-849.
13. Cryan P.M. Wind turbines as landscape impediments to the migratory connectivity of bats. Environmental Law 2011, 41:355-370.
14. Cryan P.M., Barclay R.M.R. Causes of bat fatalities at wind turbines: hypotheses and predictions. Journal of Mammalogy 2009, 90:1330-13340.
15. Cryan P.M., Brown A.C. Migration of bats past a remote island offers clues toward the problem of bat fatalities at wind turbines. Biological Conservation 2007, 139:1-11.
16. Cryan P.M., Jameson J.W., Baerwald E.F., Willis C.K.R., Barclay R.M.R., Snider E.A., et al. Evidence of late-summer mating readiness and early sexual maturation in migratory tree-roosting bats found dead at wind turbines. PLoS One 2012, 7:e47586. 10.1371/journal.pone.0047586.
17. ®. Retrieved from. http://files.ctia.org/pdf/CTIA_Survey_MY_2012_Graphics-final.pdf.
18. de Jong J., Ahlén I. Factors affecting the distribution pattern of bats in Uppland, central Sweden. Holarctic Ecology 1991, 14:92-96.
19. Downs N.C., Racey P.A. The use by bats of habitat features in mixed farmland in Scotland. Acta Chiropterologica 2006, 8:169-185.
20. Ethier K., Fahrig L. Positive effects of forest fragmentation, independent of forest amount, on bat abundance in eastern Ontario, Canada. Landscape Ecology 2011, 26:865-876.
21. Fenton M.B. Reporting: essential information and analysis. Bat echolocation research: Tools, techniques and analysis 2004, 133-140. Bat Conservation International, Austin, TX. R.M.R. Brigham, E.K.V. Kalko, G. Jones, S. Parsons, H.J.G.A. Limpens (Eds.).
22. Ford W.M., Britzke E.R., Dobony C.A., Rodrigue J.L., Johnson J.B. Patterns of acoustical activity of bats prior to and following white-nose syndrome occurrence. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 2011, 2:125-134.
23. Furlonger C.L., Dewar H.J., Fenton M.B. Habitat use by foraging insectivorous bats. Canadian Journal of Zoology 1987, 65:284-288.
24. Gehrt S.D., Chelsvig J.E. Bat activity in an urban landscape: patterns at the landscape and microhabitat scale. Ecological Applications 2003, 13:939-950.
25. Griffin D.R. Listening in the dark: The acoustic orientation of bats and men 1958, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
26. Grindal S.D., Brigham R.M. Short-term effects of small-scale habitat disturbance on activity by insectivorous bats. Journal of Wildlife Management 1998, 62:996-1003.
27. Hayes M.A. Bats killed in large numbers at United States wind energy facilities. Bioscience 2013, 63:975-979.
28. Horn J.W., Arnett E.B., Kunz T.H. Behavioral responses of bats to operating wind turbines. Journal of Wildlife Management 2008, 72:123-132.
29. Jameson J.W. Tall structure attraction and mortality at wind turbines of migratory tree bats in Manitoba Canada 2011, (M.Sc. thesis), University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB.
30. Jameson J.W., Willis C.K.R. Bat mortality at a wind power facility in central Canada. Northwestern Naturalist 2012, 93:194-202.
31. Johnson G.D., Wallace E.P., Strickland M.D., Shepherd M.F., Shepherd D.A., Sarappo S.A. Collision mortality of local migrant birds at a large-scale wind power development on Buffalo Ridge, Minnesota. Wildlife Society Bulletin 2002, 30:879-887.
32. Kalcounis-Rüppell M.C., Psyllakis J.M., Brigham R.M. Tree roost selection by bats: an empirical synthesis using meta-analysis. Wildlife Society Bulletin 2005, 33:1123-1132.
33. Kunz T.H. Lasionycteris noctivagans. Mammalian Species 1982, 172:1-5.
34. Kunz T.H., Arnett E.B., Cooper B.M., Erickson W.P., Larkin R.P., Mabee T., et al. Assessing impacts of wind-energy development on nocturnally active birds and bats: a guidance document. Journal of Wildlife Management 2007, 71:2449-2486.
35. Kunz T.H., Arnett E.B., Erickson W.P., Hoar A.R., Johnson G.D., Larkin R.P., et al. Ecological impacts of wind energy development on bats: questions, research, needs, and hypotheses. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2007, 5:315-324.
36. Loxcel Loxcel cell tower map 2012, Retrieved from. http://www.loxcel.com/celltower.
37. Martin T.G., Chadés I., Arcese P., Marra P.P., Possingham H.P., Norris D.R. Optimal conservation of migratory species. PLoS One 2007, 2:e751. 10.1371/journal.pone.0000751.
38. Rainho A., Palmeirim J.M. The importance of distance to resources in the spatial modelling of bat foraging habitat. PLoS One 2011, 6:e19227. 10.1371/journal.pone.0019227.
39. Reynolds D.S. Monitoring the potential impact of a wind development site on bats in the northeast. Journal of Wildlife Management 2006, 70:1219-1227.
40. Russo D., Jones G. Use of foraging habitats by bats in a Mediterranean area determined by acoustic surveys: conservation implications. Ecography 2003, 26:197-209.
41. Ryback E.J., Jackson W.B., Vessey S.H. Impact of cooling towers on bird migration. Bird Control Seminars Proceedings, Paper 120 1973, 186-194. Retrieved fromhttp://digitalcommons.unl.edu/icwdmbirdcontrol/120/?utm_source=digitalcommons.unl.edu%2Ficwdmbirdcontrol%2F120&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages.
42. Saunders W.E. The destruction of birds at long point light-house, Ontario, on four nights in 1929. Auk 1930, 47:507-511.
43. Schnitzler H., Moss C.F., Denzinger A. From spatial orientation to food acquisition in echolocating bats. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2003, 18:386-394.
44. Shump K.A., Shump A.U. Lasiurus borealis. Mammalian Species 1982, 183:1-6.
45. Shump K.A., Shump A.U. Lasiurus cinereus. Mammalian Species 1982, 185:1-5.
46. Skowronski M.D., Fenton M.B. Model-based detection of synthetic bat echolocation calls using an energy threshold detector for initialization. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2008, 123:2643-2650.
47. Smallwood K.S. Comparing bird and bat fatality-rate estimates among North American wind-energy projects. Wildlife Society Bulletin 2013, 37:19-33.
48. Sutherland W.J. The importance of behavioural studies in conservation biology. Animal Behaviour 1998, 56:801-809.
49. Szewczak J. Sonobat 3.0 2009, http://www.sonobat.com.
50. Szewczak J.M., Arnett E. Ultrasound emissions from wind turbines as a potential attractant to bats: A preliminary investigation 2006, Retrieved from. http://www.batsandwind.org/pdf/ultrasoundem.pdf.
51. Terres J.K. Migration records of the red bat, Lasiurus borealis. Journal of Mammalogy 1956, 37:442.
52. Van Gelder R.G. Echo-location failure in migratory bats. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 1956, 59:220-222.
53. Walker B.G., Boersma P.D., Wingfield J.C. Habituation of adult magellanic penguins to human visitation as expressed through behavior and corticosterone secretion. Conservation Biology 2005, 20:146-154.
54. Walsh A.L., Barclay R.M.R., McCracken G.F. Designing bat-activity surveys for inventory and monitoring studies at local and regional scales. Bat echolocation research: Tools, techniques and analysis 2004, 157-165. Bat Conservation International, Austin, TX. R.M.R. Brigham, E.K.V. Kalko, G. Jones, S. Parsons, H.J.G.A. Limpens (Eds.).
55. Waters D.A., Gannon W.L. Bat call libraries: management and potential use. Bat echolocation research: Tools, techniques and analysis 2004, 150-157. Bat Conservation International, Austin, TX. R.M.R. Brigham, E.K.V. Kalko, G. Jones, S. Parsons, H.J.G.A. Limpens (Eds.).
56. Weller T.J., Baldwin J.A. Using echolocation monitoring to model bat occupancy and inform mitigations at wind energy facilities. Journal of Wildlife Management 2011, 76:619-631.
57. Wilcove D.S., Wikelski M. Going, going, gone: is animal migration disappearing?. PLoS Biology 2008, 6:e188. 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060188.
58. Willis, C. K. R.. (n.d.). [Seven years of data on bats captured using mistnets and harp traps throughout southern and central Manitoba]. Unpublished raw data.
59. Willis C.K.R., Barclay R.M.R., Boyles J.G., Brigham R.M., Brack V., Waldien D.L., et al. Bats are not birds and other problems with Sovacool's (2009) analysis of animal fatalities due to electricity generation. Energy Policy 2010, 38:2067-2069.